Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO

Job Summary

Gritter Francona is seeking a Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO to lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for a potential project aimed at supporting the VA's objective of increasing Veterans' access to care and active participation in their healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Governance
  • Lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for the contract, aligning clinical, operational, and IT goals to organizational strategy and regulatory requirements
  • Chair or co-chair clinical informatics committees, governance councils, and multidisciplinary working groups
  • Establish and enforce clinical informatics policies, standards, and best practices, including change control and clinical safety/quality oversight
• Clinical & Workflow Excellence
  • Translate clinical requirements into optimized, evidence-based workflows, order sets, clinical decision support (CDS), care pathways, and documentation standards
  • Champion safety, usability, and clinician experience by applying human factors and workflow engineering principles
  • Ensure content standardization (terminologies, value sets, templates) and reduce unwarranted variation across sites, service lines, and specialties
• Technology & Data
  • Oversee selection, configuration, and optimization of EHRs and related systems (e.g., ancillary, device integration, imaging, telehealth, patient engagement, population health)
  • Guide data quality initiatives, interoperability (HL7, FHIR, APIs, registries, HIE), and analytics to support clinical quality, performance improvement, and reporting
  • Evaluate and govern the use of AI/ML-enabled clinical tools and decision support for safety, bias mitigation, transparency, and clinical efficacy
• Quality, Safety, and Compliance
  • Ensure clinical informatics deliverables are acceptable, high quality, and standardized to meet clinical, contractual, and regulatory standards (e.g., CMS, The Joint Commission, ONC, HIPAA)
  • Lead clinical risk assessments, safety event reviews related to health IT, and corrective actions
  • Oversee testing, validation, and go-live readiness for clinical functionality and content changes
• Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management
  • Serve as the clinical liaison among providers, nursing, ancillary departments, IT, operations, and executive leadership
  • Lead structured change management strategies, including communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and adoption metrics
  • Direct clinician education, competency, and super-user programs; monitor adoption and satisfaction and remediate barriers
• Contract Leadership & Delivery
  • Manage the contract's clinical informatics scope, staffing, budget (as applicable), milestones, deliverables, and risk management
  • Produce high-quality documentation (program plans, governance artifacts, status reports, SOPs, validation evidence) and present to internal/external stakeholders
  • Ensure timely, compliant delivery across environments

Requirements

• MD or DO, active and unrestricted medical license in a U.S. state or territory
• 8+ years demonstrated experience as a Clinical Informatics Director and/or Clinical Informatics Lead within a healthcare system (government or private sector)
• Proven leadership of enterprise-level EHR and clinical technology programs (implementation, optimization, upgrades, interoperability)
• Demonstrated success in clinical workflow transformation, content standardization, and quality/safety initiatives
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, CMS quality programs, ONC certification), clinical standards (e.g., terminologies, order sets), and interoperability (HL7 v2, C-CDA, FHIR)
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills; able to influence across clinical and technical teams and executive leadership
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex portfolios, budgets, and timelines

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retailment Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development